Letterbooks of William Henry Lyttleton

May it please your Excellency I have received your Excellencys letter of the 30th of Last Monthy, And in pursuance to your order I here Inclose and Acct. of the sums dispurs’d by me. When I was in Town I acquainted Your Excellency that I was in want of some money and that 5 months pay migt be granted me, to which I meet with no Opposision, therefore the Balance of the ___3400 in my hands in __59.16.6. I shall neverthelefs make use of what money of my own in my hands here, as there wil occafsion for to pay … Read more

Tennasie River one mile & half nov. from Tamathle The proper work for the following Men for the 5thOctb 1756 The Two Miners wuz Michael Brennan and William Campbell are requisite to make a tryal in quarying of Stone on this point of the Hill which leyes to the nor of the camp on the River. The Carpenters’ are to be employed to make handles for falling and broad axes wuz for Spades Grubing and other Hoe’s and pick Axes&c. The Sawyers are to put the whip & crofs out Saw’s in order and the Facine maker and seven Afsistants … Read more

As I was busy about dispatching M. Crayton I coud not answer your letter before ______which I ______open in which you begg the _______of me not to move one man Employed by your dircetoion in the fortification, and not to give any other order concerning the fortification, but not such as are entrly agreable to your Dircetions, you further desire that I may not give orders for anything I want done but apply to you in a private mannerm because as you say, it woud confound you in your heavy charge in which you are (Unus and __us) what you … Read more

1. Since the first articul, likewife the 2d & 3th of the Directions of y 12th 8hr. never has ben executed, & consequently without observing them the 8th articul of y Directions of y 3th gbr. Cannot be executed, & His Majeste & puplick muft consequently be Loosers of there expenses this articul will therefore put all Thofe in remembrance, who has charge of y men. 2. after _______pallisador work is finished, the two provincial compaynies are to devide them self: Every compaynie is to take (as ufuale) his own cantoune : vis one cantoune is from the Deviding upon … Read more

May it please your excellencey I must beg live to trouble your Excellency with a few lines as Capt. DeBrahm is a going down, the Seven Month in front there was a fiold day order’d and Capt Damorce had the _____ of war Read to the people and told them that if the works was done that they should not one of them _____ till Capt. Stwart Return’d from town which has occasion’d so much uneadenofs among the people that I can hardly perswad them to do any work Capt. Damerce alfo told me that after the works finifh’d if … Read more